<VV> Paypal Rip-Off

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

How did they get her PayPal account information from the sales seminar's 
web site?  That's not possible if she logged into PayPal to send the 
money.  The merchant never gets enough information from PayPal to log into 
a user's PayPal account.  Something is fishy.

If someone steals your credit card and uses it to buy things, all you have 
to do is challenge it, and the merchant EATS the loss.  I know because as a 
merchant, I have had to eat a lot of fraudulent transactions. The credit 
card companies just send you a chargeback notice, and you have a short time 
before they suck the money right out of your merchant account.

Dave Morris

At 07:14 PM 1/16/2005, you wrote:
>Here is a true story:    My wife went to a sales seminar  where she was told
>to order their books via a website.  When she did this,  some hacker got into
>that website acct., got her Paypal acct. info and used her  info to empty her
>personal bank acct.  Approx. $2,000.
>After much wrangling and angst, she was able to get Paypal to restore the
>money to her bank acct.  I have also learned not to use my debit Visa 
>card  for
>Internet purchases.  I now use a Visa or Amex. credit card.   Obviously, the
>debit card allows access to one's bank acct.
>
>Joe D.
>Florida
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